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Leading value added distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions announced that it will hold “HP Networking Academy” in association with HP Networking division a special training program that is designed to enrich the skill set of channel partners and to update them on latest developments in Iraq. Fadi Bawab, Channel Manager Iraq, Avnet Technology Solutions, said, “Most of the existing channel trainings are held outside of Iraq. Due to high travel cost and existing visa issues this means that the majority of local channel partners and customers from Iraq miss out opportunities to update themselves with the latest technology. We believe that this academy will provide a great platform for many more local partners and end users to be on a par with rest of the region”.Read More…

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Leading communications and IT network infrastructure solutions provider, Foss LLC announed that it has been awarded the International ISO 9001:2008 certification demonstrating the company’s commitment to quality-of-service standards. “Foss always strives to exceed customer expectations, this award formally recognises this and confirms our reputation for delivering high levels of quality and service”, said James Underwood, Managing Director of Foss LLC. Read More…

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South Africa based leading ICT solutions company, The Webcom Group recently signed up an reseller agreement with Huawei to sell range of products and solutions like, video ATMs, networking, data centre and telepresence solutions in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commenting on the tie-up Pieter le Roux, Technical Director at The Webcom Group, said, “These four mainline product segments broaden our scope of offering, allowing us to deliver a Tier 1 brand to our customers. Huawei’s product offering is competitive and complements our existing offering to customers.”Read More…

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Cyberoam announced the appointment of FDC International as their distributors for the Middle East region for the newly launched NetGenie range of routers. Cyberoam choose FDC International for its strong channel partner base in the region and it believes that there is huge potential for a product like NetGenie in the region, which can be fulfilled by partnering with FDC.
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Leading WAN optimisation and application performance management solution provider, Exinda recently embarked on its African growth journey with the opening of an office in South Africa to drive the business in African continent. Now, it extended its reach in the continental Africa with the appointment two Kenya based resellers Adwest Communications and IntraCom primarily to cover East African market, while, Mauritius based User-Tech Solutions will cater to Indian Ocean islands region.Read More…

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HP announced its new services and solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure that empower service providers and enterprises to rapidly deliver cloud services while leveraging existing investments, minimising risk and lowering costs. Organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver IT resources on demand to gain agility, increase competitive advantage and meet customer expectations. Legacy data centers, rigid IT architectures and technology sprawl are key barriers to implementing new delivery models such as IT as a Service and cloud computing. Read More…

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Brocade is organising an seminar titled ‘Fabric 101: Essentials of Ethernet Fabric’. The event will take place in Dubai on the 22nd of November 2011, at the Address Hotel in Dubai Marina from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The seminar will focus on the deployment of an Ethernet fabric-based infrastructure in their company’s data centre. Seminar will cover various topics like the market and technology factors driving the fabric evolution in the data centre, the inner workings and key components of an Ethernet fabric, the integration of Ethernet fabrics into the traditional Ethernet network. It will also highlight the Standards, terminology, and technologies including TRILL, convergence and Spanning tree.
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Hermes Datacomms Middle East, the Wide Area Network communications solution specialist to the upstream oil and gas industry expanded its team in Middle East region with the appointment of Saif Al-Azzawi as Country Manager of their Iraq operations, and Nigel Green as Head of Security and Operations for the region. Saif Al-Azzawi brings with him a wealth of experience in technology, project management, sales, logistics and account management. Read More…

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Adoption of Unified Communications technology is reaching critical mass, corroborated by a report from In-Stat earlier this year that predicted small office spending on IP telephony would grow by 83 per cent in 2011. The trend is moving away from premises-based Unified Communications towards technology hosted in the Cloud, as consumers become aware of the benefits and the technology becomes more accessible, affordable and scalable. According to research conducted by Frost & Sullivan last year, the Unified Communications (UC) market in the Middle East is expected to reach US$235 million by 2014. Read More…

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SonicWALL in its eight year of participation at GITEX showcases its SuperMassive E10000 Series of Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW). With the evolving threats and continued evolution of computing trends, like adoption of virtualization, SaaS, mobility and Web 2.0 applications, SonicWALL’s team of experts will effectively demonstrate its comprehensive portfolio of Next-Generation IT Security solutions to address these burgeoning threats. Read More…

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Iomega expanded its portfolio of Network Storage products with the introduction of Iomega StorCenter PX Series in the Middle East region and it will also demonstrate StorCenter PX series at GITEX 2011 at its stand 401 in hall 4. The StorCenter PX Series is powered by world class EMC storage technology, which features four-bay and six-bay desktop models and a four-bay rackmount model, each available in scalable configurations at competitive prices. Read More…

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Zero Technologies, the Middle East’s first company to manufacture and export consumer electronics that are wholly-owned by a regional company is set to take the global computing industry by storm thanks to a radically new, inexpensive, internet-based, ‘zero client’ computing system and a veritable dream-team of partners. “As desktop virtualization revolutionizes the world’s workplaces, UAE-based Zero Technologies is proud to represent the country’s pioneering and entrepreneurial spirit in its leadership in this critical new area of technological advancement,” said Dr. Mohamed Almur, Co-Founder of UAE-based Zero Technologies. Read More…